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For my wife, Louise.
Thanks for winning me in that raffle
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh. It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on people and animals throughout the land.”
Exodus 9:8–9
It’s far more important to know what person the disease has, than what disease the person has.
Hippocrates
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